If you want logic, read Thomas Aquinas and the other scholastic theologians. They will answer your questions.I’m also a retired Electronic Engineer who has been taught to accept nothing that cannot be proven logically. I find the beliefs of most of my Catholic relatives and acquaintances are all based on memorized catechism statements and a lot of non-logical emotional feelings.
If that’s your line of reasoning, how do you make sense of Bible verses like the following?The being whom the seers at Fatima believed was the Virgin Mary, reported that she told them God was, among other things angry, sad, disappointed, etc. that mankind was so full of sin and did not pray enough. She has said on other occasions that it is very difficult to hold back his anger. Now those statements to me really point to the lack of veracity that the being was actually Mary. If it was Mary, she must be completely unaware of the Church approved list of God’s attributes. Read them. God cannot be angry, He is not affected by anything. He cannot be sad or disappointed either if His attributes are real. So why would “Mary” suggest such things. I think either the children made everything up or the being made it all up to motivate the people to change their ways.
You should consider removing “Catholic” from your “religion” in your profile until you repent of this errant, heretical, blasphemous belief. It is very misleading to see someone who claims to be Catholic saying anti-Christian statements like this.And the Church insists they are. Most modern believers reject the old testament God as a vindictive, bloodthirsty, ethnic cleanser…a racist, infanticidal, genocidal, capriciously malevolent bully. He was made up by the early barbaric bronze agers to justify their own vicious actions.
I have two degrees in EE and my husband had one. Husband had a 34-year career as an EE in the defense industry, I worked for about a dozen years before I changed careers. Neither of us had any problem with accepting both the principles of science and the saving grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ. My husband’s Baptist relatives could not understand how he managed to accept both things so easily, but he himself had no problem with it. It is the grace of God that gave us faith as well as the good minds to be engineers and the help in reaching our career goals.I’m also a retired Electronic Engineer who has been taught to accept nothing that cannot be proven logically.
you are right, it actually helps. 2000+ year of solid theology, that passed through illuminism and criticism, it is at least hard to debate for anyone who wants to go deeper in that. But again, Theology is not geometry, always keep the balance with prayer and love (just like when studying science we had to study piano to stay sane lol)I realize that not everybody has the gift of faith, but the fact that you’re a logical engineer or scientist doesn’t exclude a belief in God or Jesus or Catholicism.